Episode 155: Martin Boyd of FIS; A Look at the CAT

Martin Boyd, global head of FIS’s institutional and wholesale business unit, which represents the legacy SunGard suite of services, joins to discuss everything from fintechs to regulation to machine learning to cloud. Before that, though, Anthony and James provide their takeaway after writing extensively about the Consolidated Audit Trail (CAT).   CAT 2:15-18:00 Anthony and James look at the train wreck that is the Consolidated Audit Trail.  https://www.waterstechnology.com/regulation/4152906/cats-tale-how-thesys-the-sros-and-the-sec-mishandled-the-consolidated-audit-trail https://www.waterstechnology.com/regulation/4166596/cats-future-still-cloudy-as-nms-committee-declines-to-name-new-processor Martin Boyd 21:00 Martin Boyd joins the podcast and first looks at the state of the fintech community. 25:30 How does FIS try to interact with that fintech community? 29:30 Where are there still opportunities for fintechs to make an impact? 32:00 A look at how artificial intelligence comes into play.  34:30 How does the regulatory environment drive tech spend? 39:30 Cloud is becoming much more important. 42:00 Where will innovation come from in the next few years?